Lesbian Love
Evelyn Addams
…”Lesbian Love,” [is] a collection of short stories and illustrations, [which] was published in February 1925. Written under the pseudonym Evelyn Addams, it explores the sexual awakenings and gender-defying nature of several dozen women of varying social pedigrees whom Adams had met in Greenwich Village and in her travels around the country as a roving saleswoman of revolutionary multilingual periodicals. She changed the names of her characters to protect their identities…At the time, books like Adams’s were considered indecent and often burned. Her 150 printed copies of “Lesbian Love” disappeared. Over time her work faded from memory… In 1999, Nina Alvarez, a college student in Albany, N.Y., found a green clothbound book in the lobby of her apartment building. When she picked it up she became the owner of what is now believed to be the only extant copy of “Lesbian Love.” ‘ ~ Emily Palmer, New York Times
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| Publication Date | 08-Apr-05 |
| Publisher | Independently published |
| Format | Cloth |
| Notes | In her lifetime and for many years after, Eve Adams was variously called a “novelty girl,” “a bit of an anarchist,” “the queen of the third sex,” “a self-professed ‘man-hater,'” the author of an indecent book and, finally, Passenger 847 on Transport 63 to Auschwitz.’ ~ Emily Palmer, New York Times |
| BookID | 251754 |
